ADDITIONS TO THE NEW GUINEA FLORA. 
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DENDROBIUM, Sw. 
Section PEDILONIUM. 
D. Dixsoni (n. sp.) Stems slender, more or less enlarging at 
the centre, internodes short, about 13 in. long, either clothed by the 
leaf-sheaths or their thready remains. Leaves linear or 
lanceolate, 4 or 5 in, long, 8 or 9 lines broad, the margin folded in at 
the base for about the length of an inch, obtuse, and very unequal-sided 
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hear the end of the leafless stems, deep rosy-pink except the labellum, 
which with a part of the column is of a deep orange. Pedicels with 
ovary about 6 lines long. Bracts lanceolate, 6 lines long. Sepals 
about the same length as the bracts, lanceolate; dorsal one slightly 
meurved, the lateral ones somewhat spreading, all apiculate. Petals - 
apex; texture thick, but showing neither plates or calli on the disk. 
- Column short, the wings narrow, reaching halfway up 
fou : ixsoni, var. eborinum (n. var.) This differs from the 
Pag form only in having all the segments of the flowers a creamy- 
The” except the labellum, which in both kinds is of a deep orange. 
Present variety seems to have rather larger flowers. 
Hab: New Guinea, 
C. CIRRHOPETALUM, Lindley. 
b ie veolens (n. sp.) Rhizome thick, shortly creeping. Pseudo- 
conical, 3 or 4 in. high, with numerous very prominent — 
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the ova ¥; which is short and prominently grooved, about 1} in. long. 
glossy, yellow, tinged with green, the inner face of all the seg- 
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